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Well, it seems as though, despite my most voical protests, as though I will have to endure a very long and immensely boring journey within the next couple of weeks using Thailand's world beating rail system (YES I am being CUNTING well sarcastic). And so I will be needing a good read to keep me company, any recommendations?

FFS, WHAT WHERE PLANES INVENTED FOR  :x  :x  :x

Andy King's coaching manual?  Iffy's "I had to do it on the cheap"?  Dennis Wise's "I only have eyes for Ken"?  or Paul Sturrock's "Fuck knows who's the boss"?

I had a great time on the train. bangkok to chang mai. I read damage done and had a good sleep.

yes man is a very funny book too.

Pratt a Manger by David Nobbs was excellent, finished it last week.

About to tackle Mike Athertons autobiography.

Oh, 50 Facts that Should Change the World. Amazing.

a couple of good books i've read recently:

break point by vince spadea - pro tennis player
moneyball by michael lewis - about how the oakland a's win more major league baseball matches other than two or three sides despite having a third of the budget of almost every other side

Jimbo, Is that the book by Warren Fellows? I read that before i went to Bangkok and wished that i hadnt when i got to Don Mwang airport!

If you've never seen the film, or have but years ago try "The Godfather - Mario Puzo" the best book I have ever read.  Only problem is you won't be able to put it down so you'll finish it before you know it!

I seem to just be reading disturbing books at the moment, I started Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse but put it down for too long so will have to start afresh.  Then I read Everyman by Phil Roth, a book about a man's gradual decent towards death and the illnesses that debilatate him along the way.  Ends quite nicely though.

Now I'm just finishing Hunger by Knut Hamsen, a novel about the near starvation and increasing insanity of a man wandering the streets of Oslo.  fascinating and disturbing in equal measures.

Has anybody read anything by Murakami?

yeah its great isnt it. haha

i think that book is an obligatory read in thailand :D i read it on koh samed.

try some dickens. no really. ive been getting back into dickens, he really was the master of a tale. it like morse but better.

yeah every single person is reading that, the beach or the game. all very entertaining!

Dickens is amazing,his stories are so full of weird and wonderful characters with equally weird names and they go on for ages.My favourite is probably Martin Chuzzlewit,a early one and very funny.The books towards the end of his life are a bit hard to read for me,though Our Mutal friend is incredible.

Currently reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and its fantastic.Didcot Library is running a Big gay read section [which Middlesex is a part of] and i picked up three books :oops:  :D

I'm reading sex for dummies  :D

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Ive just bought "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. Apparently his books are pretty good. Also wrote the Kite Runner. Its supposed to be about the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding and looks pretty good.

Im in the middle of Russel Brands "My Booky Wook" at the moment which is pretty hilarious.

I'm halfway through Clarkson's "Don't Stop Me Now" which is very amusing.

I fancy something a bit more complex for my next read though, I missed out on His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman so I'm starting on Northern Lights for my next read, and have The Subtle Knife lined up.

Russell Brands Autobiography, suprisingly good

Northern Lights is a great book.  

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown is good too.

That's my holiday reading book, can't wait, read a little bit already and loved it.

Its very good, had a mad life.

Have you read that book stuart a life backwards,probably the best book i have ever read

About the addict who tried to get the hostel workers convicted of dealing freed?  They dramatised that not long ago , bbc2 I think, was quite well done I thought.  My girlfriend wanted to watch it because she works with ex-addicts.

The last book I read was The Damned United, which was a cracking little read really.  Not I'm flitting through The Book of General Ignorance, while trying to decide between a John Pilger book or something by Murakami.

I read loads of books when I was away...

Read a few Robert Ludlums but I didn't read any of the Bourne ones, I managed The bancroft Strategy, Road to Omaha, The Sigma Protocol and The Altman Code.

Also read Imperium by Robert Harris, I like his stuff and I managed to squeeze in an old Tom Clancy classic, Without Remorse and The Day of the Jackal!

I was away for 3.5 weeks!!

finally got round to reading angels and demons a couple of weeks back. i personally prefer the da vinci code. perhaps if i had read a&d first it would be the other way round, as both follow very similar patterns.

don't read anywhere near as much as i used to, as whenever i open a book i realise it should be some uni related literature instead of light relief

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Just finishing The Good Soldier Švejk by Hašek...

anything by david baldacci, dan brown or matt beaumont.

Is anyone a fan of Dean Koontz? I think I need to read one of his I haven't read before. Any suggestions?

someone recommended a book to me a similar thread a while ago, i bought it off ebay for a quid and it was really good, i think it was called Kolymsky heights or something.

I'm trying to read 'Porno' by Irvine Welsh. A tad difficult to follow because of the thick Scot's accent (Even when written). I think that I might give up soon.

I also read Mr. Nice recently, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It's a bit slow to start with and so a few people don't seem to get far with it but I perservered and it picked up alot. Fascinating chap Howard Marks.

I've just finished reading 'Making History' by Stephen Fry.

It's a good read (But that doesn't make me a gayer or nuffin'.............)

is that the nazi time travelling one? that was quite good. one of his others waas weird and involved a young man shagging a horse. :?

what i like about "mr nice" is that howard marks has spent the majority of his life ridiculously caned, but still has sufficient recollection to go into the level of detail he does in that book.

very impressive.

also, there is talk of a film adaptation of porno.

sufficient time has now passed, they are just waiting for the original 'trainspotting' characters to all be available.

I was just about to recommend that book, to anyone one that would listen, for the thousandth time.  :oops:

It's a superb book; one of my all time favourites. I think it was me that recommended it and feel honoured someone else has finally read that book and enjoyed it.

in that case i thank you, sir!

All irvine Welsh books are written in the dialect, persist with tehm and you will be rewarded as they are excellent reads.  I'm just finishing the Bourne Identity, a good read and might persuade me to watch the film now.  Then I've the choice of Mark Billingham maccabre crime thrillers or the second Mark Haddon book.  Anyone who gets the chance to read the non-footbal factory books by John King shoudl, they make a good read.

Stephen Fry has written a few decent books. I particularly like that one. I'm afraid it does make both of us gay though. Whether we like it or not 8)